Alpinobombus

Alpinobombus
Bombus neoboreus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Genus:	Bombus
Subgenus:	Alpinobombus

Alpinobombus is a subgenus of bees within the bumblebee genus, Bombus . It is found from Northern Spain and Norway, east to the Himalayas and China. ^[1]

Species

There are nine currently recognized Alpinobombus species: ^[2]

• Bombus alpinus – alpine bumblebee
• Bombus balteatus – golden-belted bumblebee
• Bombus hyperboreus – high Arctic bumblebee
• Bombus kirbiellus – high country (or golden-belted) bumblebee
• Bombus kluanensis – Kluane bumblebee
• Bombus natvigi – high Nearctic bumblebee
• Bombus neoboreus – active bumblebee
• Bombus polaris – polar bumblebee
• Bombus pyrrhopygus – Arctic bumblebee

References

Citations

1. Michener, Charles D. (2007-05-31). The Bees of the World. JHU Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-9220-2.
2. Williams et al. 2019.

Full references

• Williams, Paul H.; Berezin, Mikhail V.; Cannings, Sydney G.; Cederberg, Björn; Ødegaard, Frode; Rasmussen, Claus; Richardson, Leif L.; Rykken, Jessica; Sheffield, Cory S.; Thanoosing, Chawatat; Byvaltsev, Alexandr M. (2019). "The arctic and alpine bumblebees of the subgenus Alpinobombus revised from integrative assessment of species' gene coalescents and morphology (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus)". Zootaxa. 4625 (1): 1–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4625.1.1. eISSN   1175-5334. ISSN   1175-5326. PMID   31712545 . Retrieved September 1, 2024– via ResearchGate.

External links

• BugGuide page
• Natural History Museum (London, UK) page